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More Diamond Tail developing
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My Diamond Tail Flasher, P. attenuatus
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Another week
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It’s crazy how fast it is making the transition!Another week
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Blue spots start to come in on anal and dorsal fins
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It have been a month since I last took a picture of this fish. Here he is today. Continue to developed
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My P. attenuatus today on 11/30/2020
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Very pretty, but it still doesn’t look quite like the other male. Is this just the pictures, or is the coloring slightly different in real life?
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He is still developing. Will see how he will look like in a few more months.
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6 weeks after the last pictures. This is about 3 months after my male passed. He is still changing. Below are picture of my male at 3 months after sex change. The last picture is a picture of my previous 6 months after sex change. I hope my current male will be as beautiful as my last male. Not there yet but he is getting there.
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How much did they cost, if you don’t mind me asking? That’s a female right?I have been wanted a Diamond Tail Flasher for a very long time, however, 500.00 was just a tad out of my range for a wrasse. Two of my friends here in South Texas had them for a while. Looking at my friend wrasse cause me to want them even more.
Last week, while participating in this thread, We were informed by @NYAquatic that he have some in stock. The price is better so I jumped on it.
Diamond Tail Flasher wrasse
I really like these wrasses, they are probably my fav wrasse of all. So, I decided to make a thread about them. Does anyone have pictures or experience with them? Where can one be bought?www.reef2reef.com
Diamond Tail Flasher wrasse
FYI, We have them in stock! https://www.nyaquatic.com/paracheilinus-attenuatus-diamond-tail-flasher-wrasse-subadult/
Anyway, another friend and I ended up got one each. We ordered Thursday, 2/13/2020 and got the wrasses the next day. Both wrasse were very healthy, well pack. Have no problem. Both eat right away out of the bag. I have to acclimated them quickly over lunch. Mike told us his salinity, but I find that the wrasse come in at a little higher than what I was told. Maybe I need to re-calibrate my refractometer. I have to get back to work quickly so I feed them some dry flakes, and they ate a bit of it.
My friend have his QT full adding fish, I will keep both fish for a while, maybe three weeks until he can pick the wrasse up. They went into my QT system, which is a full 40 gal reef full of pods and macroalgale, a few junk corals, and Malu anemone. The quality of the water is very good. No detectable problem. I don't add Ca to this tank, so I think Alk and Ca is a little low, but this should not be a problem for the fishes.
Took a few pictures this AM. The smaller one is just over 1 inch and the larger is just about 1.5 inch. I am just glad that I finally get a wrasse that I wanted for a long time, and that she is healthy and eating with no visible disease or problem. Here are the pictures.
Both of them
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They are hard to come by. It have been a while so I forgot. I think they were about 80.00 for a tiny female, about 1 inch. Plus a high shipping. We (my friend and I) bought 3
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Jesus that’s a high price, NY Aquatics usually has the best prices around
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what are they like as females/males?
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I was asking about Diamond Tail flasher wrasses, not Pintail fairy wrasses. Thanks tho!
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At the begin of the thread, and through out the thread I documented pictures of these fish, amles and females, and how they changes
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